On Sunday 30 April 2006 6:59 pm, Dan wrote: > Keith Powell wrote: > > On Sunday 30 April 2006 2:39 pm, Bart Couvreur wrote: > >> > >> To install nvidia drivers: > >> # yum install kmod-nvidia > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Bart > > > >Hello Bart, and thanks for the welcome. > > > > I tried your method of installing the nvidia driver, but it > > didn't work. > > > > For information, I went into text mode and typed > > yum install kmod-nvidia. > > I got: > > > > Loading "installonly plugin" > > Setting up Installation process > > Setting up repositories > > core > > updates > > extras > > Reading repository metadata in from local files > > Parsing package install arguments > > No match for argument: kmod-nvidia > > Nothing to do. > > > > I tried editing the xorg.conf file to change the driver from "nv" > > to "nvidia", but that didn't work. > > > > You haven't messed anything up, just tried to do things out of > order. For one: > The kmod-nvidia package _is_ in livna, so if you don't have that > repository installed, yum can't find it. :) > And secondly, without that package installed, putting "nvidia" as > the driver name will not work because it refers Xorg to the nvidia > binary drivers, which you didn't have installed. > No harm done. > -Dan Dan, Thanks for your reply. A couple of small points to clarify things. When I ran "yum install kmod-nvidia" I thought it would possibly run a script which would find the package from a repository and install it. This 'installation by a script' is used in other distributions. Wrong! When I got those messages, I wondered if the driver was installed, but the xorg.conf file needed editing to change the driver (as is required with other distros I have tried). Wrong again! Cheers Keith.
